Industrial Robots Usually Fail Due to Trivial Physical Blockages
Teddy Warner · We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts · May 28, 2025 · at 1:27:37
Teddy Warner, founder of InTempest and Thiel Fellow, explains why warehouse and industrial automated guided vehicles experience failures.
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“Robots work great in industry. 99% of the time they work wonderfully. Like if you think about an Amazon warehouse, there's a bunch of little Roombas that roll around and move the carts and stuff. And you know, on occasion, probably one percent of the time, these robots fail and they hardly ever fail for technically complex reasons. Usually robots fail for some trivial reason.”
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